Telephone pay station



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G. A. LONG I TELEPHONE PAY STATION Filed Sept. 27, 1924 Patented Apr. 7, 1925.

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PA TEL GEORGE A. LONG, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE GRAY TELEPHONE PAY; STATION COMPANY, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, A COPVPORATION OF CONNECTICUT."

TELEPHONE PAY STATION.

Application filed September 27, 1924. Serial No. 740,220.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. Lone, citizen the United States of America, residing at 32 Lorraine Street, Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Telephone Pay Stations, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to telephone pay stations and among the principal objects of the invention is the provision of a machine of the character set forth of means of a simple and effective nature for receiving coins of different sizes and in the same chute and which will give a like signal. In a country which I have in mind there is in use two coins of different sizes but of the same denomination. I provide a construction wherein a chute will conduct such coins from the inlet to the discharge end of the chute and ill sound a proper signal, the

tlicr chutes being of such character as to receive totally different coins.

In the drawing accompanying and forming part of the present specification, I have shown in detail a form of embodiment of the invention which, to enable those skilled in the art to practice the same, will be set forth fully in the following description. I am not restricted to this disclosure. I may depart therefrom in a number of respects within the scope of the invention defined by the claim following said description.

Referring to said drawing:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a compound chute involving the invention.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view.

Fig. 3 is a cross section taken in the line of Fig. 1 looking upwardly.

l, 4", 4 and 4 are cross sections on the diagonal line 47-4 looking in the direction of the arrows in Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a top plan view, the dotted outlines illustrating a portion of the casing.

Like characters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

A compound chute is represented in detail in Fig. 1. It comprises, as represented, three auxiliary chutes, as 2, 3 and 4. The invention is primarily directed to one of the member chutes, such as that represented in detail in Figs. l to 4 inclusive. The chute 2- is intended for the reception and delivery of five-cent pieces and during its transit along the chute 2 the particular coin strikes a bell (not shown) once. A ten-cent piece is introduced into and follows the chute 3 and strikes the same bell twice. A twentyfive cent piece takes the chute at and strikes a gong (not shown) once. The idea of a compound chute having chutes for the reception of five-cent, ten-cent and twentyfive cent coins is broadly old, but the invention is, however, inherent in a chute, as 2, which is intended to accommodate different sized coins of the same denomination, usually five-cent pieces. In Canada such coins as of this character are of two sizes and the chute, as 2, is of such nature as to accommodate either sized coin rejecting any other which ill enter the chute.

As will be inferred, the chute 2- receives lire-cent coins of different sizes and conducts them from the inlet end to the discharge end of the chute, rejecting any other coin which passes through the side slot 5. It will be assumed that a coin of the correctsize inserted in the entering end of the channel 2. It rolls along the channel and is discharged from the delivery end thereof, ringing the bell by contact in its progress along the chute. It will be assumed that a wrong sized coin is inserted in the channel. It rolls along the chute until the slot 5 is reached at which point the wrong coin is discharged through said slot The chute 2 is of serpentine formation, the slot 5 being located in the first portion of the chute 2 so that the wrong coin will be promptly ejected. In the initial part'of the chute 2 one side wall as the upper side in Fig. 1 and the right side in Figs. i, 4", at and 4 has the parallel ridges 6, 7 and 8, the opposite wall being inclined.

It should be noted that the wall of the chute 2 opposite the ridges 6, 7 and 8 is at an inclination or an angle, its surface diverging forwardly so that as a coin is insorted in the chute it is positively tipped by the inclined wall into engagement with the proper ridges 6, 7 and 8.

In Figs. 4P and 4: coins Y and Y respectively are assumed to be the correct coin. In this event they will engage the ridges 6 and 7 respectively and will follow the chute to its delivery end, ringing the bell in transit. In Fig. 4 coin Z is assumed to be a wrong coin and will be trapped out of the escape slot 5. It will be understood that both the Wrong and the correct coins engage opposite sides of the chute 2.

hat I claim is:

A chute for pay stations having a discharge slot in one side thereof, its top comprising parallel ridges spaced successively at greater distances from the bottom of the chute, said bottom being inclined away from the slotted side of the chute whereby coin-s 10 of improper sizes are discharged through said slot.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature.

GEORGE A. LONG. 

